why are investigators focusing on this north carolina pond? enormous explosion. the biggest refinery on the west coast rocked by a blast. l.a.'s biggest highway shut down as flames shoot into the sky. the latest on what set off the blaze. call him harry. the royal formerly known as prince publicly drops his title. the dramatic turn tonight. and taking down barriers. they took on a sport once reserved for men. tonight they're on the road to being champions. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west. we are going to begin tonight with breaking news of another mass shooting. a gunman went on a rampage in milwaukee this afternoon, multiple people are dead, including the shooter. it happened at the molson coors complex where miller beer is brewed, as the gunfire rang out workers were told to shelter in place as police swarmed the scene. dean reynolds leads off our coverage tonight from milwaukee. >> reporter: police responded to calls of a shooting at the molson coors compound this afternoon. a total of six people who worked there are dead, including the shooter who took his own life. milwaukee mayor tom barrett. >> this is a tragic day for our state. five families, six families, actually, are grieving and will be grieving because of this horrific act of this individual. >> reporter: as officers donned tactical gear employees of the brewery were warned via e-mail to find a safe place to hide. at least one woman texted her husband that she was locked inside a room with coworkers. emergency responders described the scene to dispatchers. >> i just overheard on the radio seven victims. >> reporter: neighboring schools were locked down. this bus driver says students were in the process of dismissal when it all began. >> we're not going to let them out until it's over with, so that could be a long time. >> reporter: ryan hull's son let him know what was happening. >> he had called me and told me they were all in lockdown and they can't even leave the classroom. >> reporter: hours later the two were reunited. >> all of us were just in shock because we didn't know what was going on. >> o'donnell: now to the other breaking news. president trump appeared this evening before reporters alongside his coronavirus task force. for only the second time in his presidency, he spoke to the press from the white house briefing room and announced he's putting vice president mikepenc. coronavirus cases worldwide now top 80,000 with more than 2,700 deaths. three more cases were confirmed in the u.s. all that today bringing the total to 60. that led to another triple-digit loss on wall street today. we have two reports beginning with paula reid at the white house, and paula, it is rare to see the president come into the white house briefing room. >> reporter: yes, this is only his second appearance on that podium. earlier today, the president called his top health officials to the white house for an emergency briefing on the virus and this press conference is an opportunity for the president to defend his response to this crisis. tonight, president trump defended his administration's handling of the coronavirus response and said the vice president would be the new point person. >> but we are very, very ready for this, for anything, whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are, you know, at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. >> the president was especially frustrated that comments from the cdc tuesday stoked fears over the virus and sent stocks tumbling after he told reporters the situation was under control. health and human services secretary alex azar tried to convey the president's position to concerned lawmakers. >> he's trying to calm a public that-- we see in china panic can be as big of an enemy as virus in these situations. so there is always that balance- >> mr. secretary, i don't want to panic over this either. the stock market is crashing. he's trying to stop the stock market. he's outright contradicting everything that you all have just said, outright contradiction. >> reporter: administration officials insisted yesterday the virus was tightly contained, but azar said today it is spreading. >> i was informed that we have a 15th confirmed case. there is now community transmission in a number of countries, including outside of asia, which is deeply concerning. >> reporter: democrats accused the administration of downplaying the crisis and underfunding the response. >> what he's doing is late, too late, anemic. hopefully we can make up for the loss of time. >> reporter: a strong economy is central to the president's reelection strategy, so getting out ahead of a virus that could spread and slow economic growth is critical. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, paula, thank you so much. tonight health officials on long island, new york, are monitoring more than 80 people who visited china and may have come in contact with the coronavirus, and all over the country, there is a run on masks and protective equipment. meg oliver reports hospitals are gearing up. >> your gown goes on first. >> reporter: here at holy name medical center outside new york city, everyone from surgeons to security guards are training on how to best protect themselves from the highly contagious virus. how hard is it to protect your staff? >> most likely it's spread through droplets. so we can isolate ourselves by wearing a mask, gloves, gown, this is of the utmost importance. >> reporter: as hospitals stock up on supplies, their suppliers across the country are running out of protective equipment. this factory in georgia is adding shifts to more than double production to meet the demand for masks. >> we'll be running 24 hours a day, six days a week. >> red oak uniform and medical supply. >> reporter: in houston, this medical supply store ran out. >> there is a very limited supply, and they're allocating that supply for high-risk agencies, hospitals, and government agencies. >> reporter: coast to coast health officials are sounding the alarm. >> it is best to prepare now. >> reporter: and it's not just the healthcare system gearing up. at least six universities are recalling their students studying in italy and south korea, all in an attempt to keep the virus from spreading. >> we don't have any natural immunity. we don't have a vaccine. and we don't have anti-virals to treat this. so really right now prevention is an ounce of cure. >> reporter: in addition to hospitals, schools across the country are drawing up emergency plans to deal with a possible outbreak. one school here in new jersey tells us if three or more students show symptoms, they will notify health services and deep clean their classrooms. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, meg. thank you. we'll turn now to campaign 2020 on the day after tuesday night's debate here on cbs. bernie sanders is keeping up his populist attack on joe biden while biden picked up a big endorsement from a south carolina party power broker. and with the primary there just three days away, the race is going down to the wire. ed o'keefe reports tonight from charleston. >> reporter: bernie sanders is leading nationally, but not here in south carolina, which explains why today he went after joe biden. >> joe, you're not going to bring working people into the political process when you voted for a terrible bankruptcy bill. >> reporter: the former vice president, an establishment favorite, today earned the most establishment of endorsements from congressman jim clyburn, a kingmaker in south carolina. >> south carolina should be voting for joe biden. >> reporter: biden predicts victory on saturday, which would be his first of the campaign. >> i'm here, heart and soul, with everything i've got, to earn the sup o of south carolina. >> reporter: if he does prevail, it will likely be because of biden's support among african americans, who account for roughly six in ten democratic primary voters here. today the contenders stopped by a civil rights breakfast. >> we're going to bring people together. >> reporter: the tone was far different from tuesday night's debate, seen by more than 15 million people, the highest rated yet on broadcast television. >> i dug in, i did the work. and then bernie's team trashed me for it. >> reporter: the candidates didn't hold back, knowing it was their last chance to slow sanders' momentum before saturday's primary and super tuesday. >> i like bernie. we came into the senate together, but i do not think this is the best person to lead the ticket. >> imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. >> o'donnell: ed joins us from the campaign trail. so, the candidates are focused on south carolina, but with super tuesday just right around the corner, whose campaigns are best organized and positioned to do well? >> reporter: sure, norah. you can measure this in a few different states, but by far michael bloomberg and bernie sanders have the most robust operations in those 14 states. bloomberg is spending at least $153 million on tv ads there, and sanders has deployed more than 200 staffers. by comparison, former vice president biden is spending just six figures on tv ads in eight of those states. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, ed. thank you. today federal prosecutors charged five people connected to a white supremacist group with plotting to intimidate journalists and others, including a cabinet secretary, by terrorizing them in their homes. jeff pegues has more on the suspects. >> reporter: the arrest involved members of a neo-nazi group called atomwaffen, which has been on law enforcement's radar for several years. >> they vowed to accelerate the collapse of civilization using violence, mass murder, hate, and threat. >> reporter: the five individuals are all charged with making threats. four were involved in a plot to send hate-filled posters like this one to the homes of journalists and activists, many of them jewish. the fifth, john cameron denton, is alleged to have called in fake threats to a virginia university, a historic black church, and even then department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. earlier this month fbi director christopher wray elevated racially motivated violent violent extremism to a national threat priority. >> not only is the terror threat diverse, it's unrelenting. >> reporter: according to the anti-defamation league, domestic extremists were responsible for at least 42 deaths last year alone and 90% of those were linked to right-wing extremists. >> the violence associated with oups has surpassed thessed the violence associated with groups that we deem international terrorism groups here in the united states. >> reporter: the f.b.i. has now created a domestic hate crimes and terrorism fusion cell to investigate these cases, and that involves working undercover and tracking what suspects are doing online if, norah, there is evidence that they are planning violence. >> o'donnell: it's now one of the top threats. >> it is. >> o'donnell: all right, jeff, thank you. in north carolina, an intense search is under way today for a 15-month-old girl from tennessee who has been missing since december. her mother and grandmother are under arrest after giving police conflicting stories about the toddler's whereabouts. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: investigators searching for a missing tennessee toddler didn't find any clues today in this north carolina pond. they were looking for evidence of 15-month-old evelyn mae boswell, last seen just after christmas in tennessee. evelyn's mother megan boswell says she left the little girl with her mother, the child's grandmother. >> we went to go out to eat. and my mom came and got her. she was wearing a little hot pink tracksuit with a matching bow and little matching shoes. >> reporter: the little girl was reported missing last week and an amber alert was issued. investigators want to know why megan boswell waited nearly two months to report her child missing. the sheriff of sullivan county says her story keeps changing, and boswell was charged with false reporting. >> many of the false statements that megan made delayed our investigations. >> reporter: angela boswell, the toddler's grandmother, and william mccloud, were arrested in north carolina on unrelated charges. there are still no signs of the little girl. omar villafranca, cbs news. >> o'donnell: winter storm alerts are posted tonight in more than a dozen states from the great lakes to northern new en d as far south a north carolina and tennessee. parts of michigan and indiana got up to four inches of snow today, and more is expected tonight. as the storm pushes east, parts of upstate new york are bracing for up to three feet of snow by saturday. tonight investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a tremendous explosion and fire at the largest fuel refinery on the west coast. the blast was heard miles from the plant in carson, california, and mola lenghi is there tonight. >> a huge ball of fire in the center of the refinery. >> reporter: flames shot through the night sky, visible throughout much of southern california after an explosion at the largest refinery on the west coast. >> there were several explosions, up to potentially three explosions that preceded the fire itself. >> reporter: the boom could be heard at least 25 miles away. one of the busiest freeways in the nation, the 405, shut down overnight as more than three dozen l.a. county firefighters battled the blaze for nearly five hours. it happened at the marathon five petroleum refinery south of los angeles, but what burned was not crude oil. fire officials tell cbs news that all this was a massive propane explosion. the cause still under investigation, and the bulk of the refinery back up and running. well, 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